Institute of Applied Biology
and Crops that Vavilov headed in St. Petersburg.

All of the following journal entries are exerpts from
Vavilov's
actual journals kept throughout his travels.

1914: Dr. Malinowski, of Warsaw, arrived intending to
work here,
but on the declaration of war a few days later, he returned
to Russia. I also left about the same time. The whole of my
material, representing experiments of great interest, was lost
in the "Runo" which struck a mine on the voyage to
Russia.

1925: We have before us the possibility, in Timitiazev's
expression, of "sculpting organic forms at will". In
the near
future man will be able, by means of crossing, to synthesize
forms such as are absolutely unknown to nature.

1926: It will be a while before I can believe my eyes.
In my
pocket are no less than the visas to Syria, Algiers, Tunis, and
Morocco as well as Spain, and even in the end, and most
important, Abyssinia and Somalia.
1930: (In response to an order from the Soviet Embassy to
interupt his work for a state dinner in Washington) This
wire is from a man who is not above me. If I were a communist,
I would have to obey. In that case I could not use my own judgement.
I am employed by the Communists to work for the people of the
USSR, but am still free to judge what is best. I will answer
the wire, it is more important for the future of the people of
the USSR that I visit the centers of origin of cultivated plants
in Central America than that I attend any state dinner that can
be arranged.

Below are the Newspaper Articles:

Vavilov Journeys to the States: By: Vadim Gordin In May 1921, we were proud to accept into America one of the leading biologists in the world. This biologist is not only a representative of a new breed of thinking in the field of genetics, but also a representative from the newly formed Soviet Union (Formerly Russian Federation). Nickolai Vavilov traveled our great continent this month collecting seed samples from all over the continent for a seed bank which he is building back in the Soviet Union.Professor Vavilov traveled through 20 states. Vavilov Arrested: By: Vadim Gordin There has been a wild political and scientific battle raging for the past several years throught the biological and genetic societies of Russia. The question being debated happens to be the a theory for the development of species, and their organization and importance. On one side are the Lysenko supporters. These are the good communists, the acceptable members of society, the cultured respectable people that we have come to accept the scientists of our country to be. All that they are proposing is that the environment a creature is raised in dictates that particular creatures characteristics. We normal people can understand this principle without any scientific proof. Even Marx taught us that we are products of our environment, not birth-lines. But for the sake of argument, a group of scoundrels that make themselves out to be scientists has imposed onto the psyche of our nations scientific establishments the tarnished theories of genetics. Even our leaders have accepted genetics as a prostitute of imperial ideals, and a tool of racism and fascism. We know now that geneticists are nothing more than saboteurs of our nation scientific institutions, spies, bandits, and representatives of the powers of darkness that plague the world today. Taken from an actual Article in the Pravda (a Moscow newspaper) circa 1940, translated by Vadim Gordin: many of the Genetics Camp discover such self glorifying garbage. They employ a blatant disregard for what is best for our country, its people, and practical thinking in general. These people show such a thick sculled and self-isolated demeanor that they leave no choice than to deal with them in the most decisive manner.